Symbian optimizes latest OS version for convergence and market segmentation

Jul 13, 2006 06:32 GMT  ·  By

Symbian Limited announced the availability of Symbian OS v9.3, the latest evolution of the world's leading smartphone operating system.

The most significant new features in Symbian OS 9.3 are native support for Wi-Fi wireless networking and USB 2.0 on-the-go. It also offers shorter start-up times for phones and key applications as well as improved memory management, resulting in more responsive devices

Symbian OS v9.3 builds on the success of the v9 family as a robust, secure, open and standards-based OS for smartphones. It includes incremental enhancements in line with market requirements related to phone performance and reducing time-to-market for handset vendors and network operators' cost-effective deployment of revenue-generating services, content and applications.

With an aim to extend Symbian smartphones into the mass-market, Symbian's focus is to ensure Symbian OS which is adopted as the operating system of choice by its customers, the world's leading handset manufacturers, for the development of higher volume and lower cost, advanced, data-enabled phones also known as smartphones for 2.5G, 3G and HSDPA networks around the world.